Kieran Glennon
Researches the political/sectarian conflict in Belfast 1920-22. Author of "From Pogrom to Civil War - Tom Glennon & The Belfast IRA" and "Pogrom & Partition - Belfast's Market Area 1920-22." Blogs at www.thebelfastpogrom.com. Cooks fish, watches St Pats.
- Wow. Compared to loads of anodyne-by-comparison DIB entries I've read, that is absolutely incendiary, and rightly so. Fair play to Liz Evers, who wrote it.
- Everybody knew, nobody said’. #OTD in 1984, Ann Lovett lay down in the rain in the grotto behind St Mary's Church, Granard & gave birth to a full-term baby boy. She was found alive around 4pm by three schoolboys but died later that day. www.dib.ie/biography/lo... #DIBLives
- New blog post, about a teacher who became Michael Collins' most trusted contact in Belfast and accompanied him to the talks that led to the second Craig-Collins Pact. But the manner of his release from internment was controversial. thebelfastpogrom.com/2026/01/31/f...
- Brilliant thread. Not a lot had changed by the 1920s, or even later - and why would it? The Orange Order was successfully doing what it set out to achieve - "binding the lower orders to gentry leadership and suppressing democratic instincts."
- I've recently published a scholarly edition of a primary text: 'Letters from an Old Orangeman' by 'Montanus'. Here's a twitter thread from my introductory essay. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
